The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

✍ Scribed by Defino, Terri-Lynne

• Book ID: 110480103
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 497 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062742698

✦ Synopsis

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.

Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess--lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health.

Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years--or final days--in understated luxury and surrounded...